delphi-7 Questions

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my app is a non-unicode app written in Delphi 7. I'd like to convert unicode strings to ANSI with this function : function convertU(ws : widestring) : string; begin result := string(ws); end; ...
Hypesthesia asked 9/9, 2012 at 6:54

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I have one fundamental doubt in Delphi. When I keep any component at design time, say for example TADOConnectuion and on button click even I write following code then I do not get any error: begin...
Freehanded asked 30/8, 2012 at 8:53

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Alright I got something really tricky here... I would like to DRAW/USE Headers to a ChildNode. I think the idea is reasonable because it would look amazing to have headers in subnodes so the childn...
Womanize asked 27/8, 2012 at 17:0

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I would like to select either all root nodes or all child nodes (not all nodes in a VirtualTreeView). I've tried to use this code to select all root nodes: procedure SelectAllRoots; var Node: PVi...
Gerfen asked 27/8, 2012 at 12:45

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this is my simple code to generate all possible combinations of a set for example 1,2,3: Display: 123 132 213 231 312 321 i want to create variable number of for loops to let the user deter...
Spermato asked 26/8, 2012 at 17:2

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I have a messy Delphi 7 legacy system to maintain and develop. I am already reading "Working effectively with legacy code" and I like this book very much. In order to start following the advices ...
Inman asked 21/8, 2012 at 11:10

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I'm using delphi 7. I need to log to a file the complete informations of any exception that occurs. Normally I use Eurekalog. This wonderful product shows a dialog with all the stack trace inform...
Gopherwood asked 13/8, 2012 at 15:51

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When I asked this question a while ago, the FastString unit came to solve my problem. Now I am starting to migrate my software from D7 to XE2. My question is, what alternatives do I have now since...
Caritacaritas asked 30/1, 2012 at 23:51

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I am dyanamically creating speedbuttons in tab change procedure, i want to made speed button disabled , when it is disabled it is not showing the loaded image. how to show the image on speed button...
Hyp asked 27/7, 2012 at 10:57

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In other languages like C++, there are operators to do a plus-equals or or-equals type of operation to add additional styles/flags. Is there an equivalent in Delphi? Right now I have some code lik...
Fundy asked 21/7, 2012 at 18:18

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Old title: How many classes per unit are advisable to have? My question is specific to Delphi. I think that in Java and C# world it is a rather accepted practice to generally have one file p...
Itch asked 21/7, 2012 at 14:34

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Is there any way to make a control transparent like button, edit, panel or etc...? I mean something like opacity or alpha blend that we have in form property.
Evelineevelinn asked 29/6, 2010 at 20:54

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I'm trying to make a console application based on Indy's IRC Component (TIdIRC) but I'm having trouble with events. Here's my code: program Project1; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} uses SysUtils, Classes,...
Visional asked 6/7, 2012 at 14:43

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I am working with Delphi application.I created one form shown as below: I wanted to make component out of this controls through code. But not through component-->create component Template-->so o...
Irvinirvine asked 28/6, 2012 at 11:1

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I've searched around online but can't find what I'm after. Basically, during an install, we fire off a separate executable that basically brute forces a few folders to be read/write enabled for the...
Rowen asked 27/6, 2012 at 16:4

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I wrote a D7 application to test the behaviour of Application.OnActivate . This is the relevant part : procedure TMainForm.FormCreate (Sender: TObject); begin Memo1.Lines.Add (IntToStr (Memo1.Line...
Vasoconstrictor asked 27/6, 2012 at 9:38

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I have a C++ DLL that I wrote that has a single exposed function, that takes a function pointer (callback function) as a parameter. #define DllExport extern "C" __declspec( dllexport ) DllExport...
Glossy asked 20/6, 2012 at 21:33

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I am working on an application where i have a combobox with long text values.Since the text values are large(in term of characters ..20 or more), to display in the combobox, the requirement was to ...
Goda asked 30/5, 2012 at 6:17

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I have the following procedure : procedure GetDegree(const num : DWORD ; var degree : DWORD ; min ,sec : Extended); begin degree := num div (500*60*60); min := num div (500*60) - degree *60; se...
Donella asked 23/5, 2012 at 18:48

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I am using delphi 7 and need to uncompress a compressed zip file which contains multiple files, I have found examples of how to unzip a single file using ZLib but cannot find any examples of this w...
Dextrosinistral asked 16/5, 2012 at 15:19

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When creating a TMenuItem runtime as shown below: mi := TMenuItem.Create([owner]); and adding to a TPopupMenu like so: PopupMenu1.Items.Add(mi); Do I need to specify the [owner] as PopupMenu1 o...
Patch asked 16/5, 2012 at 11:33

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I want to clone an entire TMenuItem with it's children to another TPopupMenu. Here is a nice code: function CloneMenuItem(SourceItem: TMenuItem): TMenuItem; var I: Integer; Begin with SourceItem...
Ubana asked 15/5, 2012 at 16:4

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I'm using VT.Background to display a background image in VT with a few columns. But I can't find a way to use different colors for cells because they hide the background image. I have tried to us...
Manwell asked 10/5, 2012 at 15:11

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Using delphi 7 TRichEdit component, RTF data is being imported from a msword document through copy and paste, but if data is contained in a box, it is not displaying correctly i.e. Please assist...
Akanke asked 8/5, 2012 at 12:11

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I'm stuck on a problem in Delphi 7 about event propagation (due to my ignorance). I am asked to dynamically attach an OnMouseUp event handler on some controls on a form (and I'm fine with that thi...
Georgenegeorges asked 8/5, 2012 at 10:7

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